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These easy Peanut Butter Noodles are a great 15-minute dinner idea, with a creamy and coconut and peanut butter sauce. I use rice noodles to make these simple chicken noodles gluten free, with peanut butter, mixed veggies and coconut milk.
The Best Peanut Butter Noodles Recipe Ever!
- Why choose this recipe? Not only are these peanut butter noodles so easy to make on a busy evening, you can also customise them to suit whatever protein or veg you have to hand. So tasty, basic ingredients and on the table in under 15 minutes? Winner.
- Top Tip: In the supermarket check out the world food aisles as often these rice noodles are gluten free and are the cheapest option. Online, my favourites are the King Soba Brown Rice Noodles and Real Naturals Gluten Free Ramen Noodles.
- Dairy Free or Vegan? No problem! These easy peanut butter noodles are naturally dairy free. To make them vegan, simply swap the chicken for tofu or extra veggies.
- Updated for 2025: I used to make these noodles all the time and recently fell back in love with them! So I’ve updated the photos and added some step-by-step images and ingredient substitution ideas to the original 2020 recipe.
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Ingredients and Substitutions
There’s a printable recipe card below for these gluten free peanut butter noodles with the full quantities. But here are the main ingredients and ideas for any swaps.
- Chicken: You can easily mix up the protein in this recipe – try it with prawns, beef or diced tofu. Or omit completely for a veggie-based noodle dish. Anything goes!
- Rice Noodles: Ensure your rice noodles are gluten free. You want dry rice noodles – any of the ‘straight to wok’ ones may result in more of a soup-like consistency!
- Stir Fry Veg: Any combination works, I used broccoli, carrots and peppers, but a bag of pre-prepared stir fry veg is absolutely fine. As is frozen stir fry veg.
- Chicken Stock: Use homemade chicken stock or from a gluten free stock cube. Vegetable stock would also work fine.
- Coconut Milk: Tinned coconut milk makes this super creamy. Use low fat or full fat.
- Peanut Butter: Smooth or crunchy both work fine. Use cashew butter if you can’t have peanuts, or tahini for a nut-free recipe.
- Tamari: Aka gluten free soy sauce. You can find this in the free from aisle.
- Sriracha Chilli Sauce
- Garlic
- Cornflour: Or cornstarch in the US.
- Coconut Oil: Or any oil of choice for stir frying.
How to Make Peanut Butter Noodles
There’s a printable recipe card below with the method. But here are some step-by-step photos to show you how easy these peanut butter chicken noodles are to make.
Storing and Making Ahead
TO MAKE AHEAD: To make things even quicker you can mix up the sauce and prep the chicken and veg ahead of time, then keep in the fridge until ready to cook.
TO STORE: Any leftovers can be kept in the fridge but I would recommend eating this dish fresh. You may find the sauce thickens and is absorbed by the noodles in the fridge, so the texture won’t be as good. I wouldn’t recommend freezing.
More Gluten Free Noodle Recipes
If you like this easy peanut butter noodles recipe then make sure you check out these other gluten free noodle recipes too…
- Gluten Free Egg Noodles
- King Prawn Stir Fry Noodles
- Teriyaki Salmon Noodles
- Gluten Free Chow Mein
- Gluten Free Ramen
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Peanut Butter Noodles Recipe
Ingredients
- 250 g chicken breast, (diced)
- 100 g gluten free rice noodles, (dry weight)
- 300 g mixed stir fry vegetables, (I used broccoli, carrots and peppers)
- 250 ml gluten free chicken or vegetable stock
- 200 ml coconut milk
- 65 g peanut butter
- 2 tbsp tamari, (gluten free soy sauce)
- 1 tsp sriracha chilli sauce
- 1 garlic clove, (peeled and crushed)
- 1 tbsp cornflour
- 1 tbsp coconut oil
- Chopped coriander, to serve
Instructions
- If using tofu, chop the block into approx 1-inch cubes. Add the cornflour to a plate, spread out and then add the tofu (or chicken) to the plate. Mix around until the tofu/chicken is completely coated in the cornflour.
- In a separate bowl, mix the peanut butter, soy sauce, sriracha and coconut milk until it combines to make a thick sauce. Set to one side for now.
- Heat the coconut oil in a large wok or high-sided pan over a high heat. Once hot, add the coated tofu/chicken to the pan. You want it to sizzle when it hits the oil! Stir fry for 3-4 minutes until golden on all sides.
- Next add the frozen stir fry veg and stir fry for 2-3 minutes. Pour over the sauce, stir to mix, and then place the dry rice noodles on top of the mixture. Pour over the hot chicken stock and stir well, trying to 'push' the noodles under the rest of the mixture so they can soak in the sauce.
- Bring the mixture to the boil, turn the heat down and then simmer for 5-10 minutes, stirring regularly to ensure the noodles are all coated in the mixture and turning soft. Serve as soon as the noodles are cooked through, sprinkled with the coriander.
Notes
- Variations: You can easily swap the chicken for prawns, beef or tofu. Use whichever gluten free veg you like – anything goes!
- Storing: I recommend eating these noodles fresh. You can refrigerate leftovers but they won’t be as good!
- Step-by-Step Photos: Check out the blog post above for step-by-step photos of this method if you find it easier to follow a visual guide.
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This was delicious, first time cooking it today. I’ll definitely make this one again. Yum!